Poking around on Tumblr, looking for some interesting art, I stumbled across the work of Alexis Flower. It wasn’t what I was looking for, but it was… Read more “Comic Review: I Roved Out in Search of Truth and Love”
Tag: Sex
Book Review: The Job
William S. Burroughs is a challenging figure in American literature, especially fringe literature. Key to the Beats, but not a part of it; key to drug culture,… Read more “Book Review: The Job”
HestFest 2017: Food & Film
Another year, another HestFest is in the can. I’ve been hosting a Charlton Heston film showing for more than 20 years. This time around, the theme was… Read more “HestFest 2017: Food & Film”
Comic Review: Peepland
I dig pulp fiction and hard boiled crime novels. I’m not an expert. I’m not a connoisseur. But I like ‘em. I like the Film Noir that… Read more “Comic Review: Peepland”
Comic Review: Rockstars: Vol. 1
What if all the stories were true? What if all the secrets and hidden meanings in lyrics and liner notes were part of a grand game? Young… Read more “Comic Review: Rockstars: Vol. 1”
Book Review: To Prime the Pump
This review was originally written for In the Mouth of Dorkness, back in 2012. I’d read the first John Grimes book months earlier, before I started writing… Read more “Book Review: To Prime the Pump”
Book Review: Shub-Niggurath Cycle
In the mid-90s, I was snapping up all things Lovecraft. I’d hit the used bookstore near my house, scouring the shelves for Lovecraft or anyone I knew… Read more “Book Review: Shub-Niggurath Cycle”
Book Review: The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies
Being a reader of Lovecraft, Howard, and some of the other ‘Weird Tales’ folk from that time, I was always aware of Clark Ashton Smith as another… Read more “Book Review: The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies”
Book Review: Cleopatra
“The personal inevitably trumps the political, and the erotic trumps all: We will remember that Cleopatra slept with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony long after we have… Read more “Book Review: Cleopatra”
Matthew J. Constantine 